Week in Ethereum News, January 19, 2020
Eth News and Links
Eth1
Notes from the latest eth1 research call. How to get to binary tries.
Guillaume Ballet argues for WASM precompiles for better eth1 to prepare for eth2
StarkWare mainnet tests find that a much bigger block size does not affect uncle rate and argues that a further decrease in gas for transaction data would be warranted
Guide to running Geth/Parity node or eth2 Prysm/Lighthouse testnet on Raspberry Pi4
Nethermind v1.4.8
Eth2
The incentives for good behavior and whistleblowing in Eth2 staking
Danny Ryan’s quick Eth2 update - updated docs explaining the spec currently under audit
Options for eth1 to eth2 bridges and phase1 fee market
Ryuya Nakamura proposes the subjective finality gadget
Lighthouse client update - 40x speedup in fork choice, 4x database speedup, faster BLS
Prysmatic client update - testnet with mainnet config
A guide to staking on Prysmatic’s testnet
Evaluating Eth2 staking pool options
Layer2
Plasma Group -> Optimism, raises round from Paradigm/ideo for optimistic rollups
Auctioning transaction ordering rights to re-align miner incentives
A writeup of Interstate Network’s optimistic rollup
Stuff for developers
Truffle v5.1.9, now Istanbul compatible.
Truffle’s experimental console.log
SolUI: generate IPFS UIs for your Solidity code. akin to oneclickdapp.com
BokkyPooBah’s Red-Black binary search tree library and DateTime library updated to Solidity v0.6
Overhauled OpenZeppelin docs
Using the MythX plugin with Remix
Training materials for Slither, Echidna, and Manticore from Trail of Bits
Soon you’ll need to pay for EthGasStation’s API
As of Feb 15, you’ll need a key for Etherscan’s API
Ecosystem
Gavin Andresen loves Tornado.Cash and published some thoughts on making a wallet on top of Tornado Cash
Almonit.eth.link launches, a search engine for ENS + IPFS dweb
Build token pop-up economies with the BurnerFactory
Enterprise
EEA testnet launch running Whiteblock’s Genesis testing platform
Privacy and blockchains primer aimed at enterprise
Sacramento Kings using Treum supply chain tracking to authenticate player equipment
Governance and standards
EIP2464: eth/65 transaction annoucements and retrievals
ERC2462: interface standard for EVM networks
ERC2470: Singleton Factory
bZxDAO: proposed 3 branch structure to decentralize bZx
Application layer
Livepeer upgrades to Streamflow release - GPU miners can transcode video with negligible loss of hashpower so video transcoding gets cheaper
Molecule is live on mainnet with a bonding curve for a clinical trial for Psilocybin microdoses
Liquidators: the secret whales helping DeFi function. Good walkthrough of DeFi network keepers.
Curve: a uniswap-like exchange for stablecoins, currently USDC<>DAI
New Golem release has Concent on mainnet, new usage marketplace, and Task API on testnet
rTrees. Plant trees with your rDai
Tokens/Business/Regulation
Former CFTC Chair Giancarlo and Accenture to push for a blockchain USD
Tokenizing yourself (selling your time/service via token) was all the rage this week, kicked off by Peter Pan. Here’s a guide to tokenizing yourself
Avastars: generative digital art from NFTs
General
Chris Dixon: Inside-out vs outside-in tech adoption
baby snark: Andrew Miller’s tutorial on implementation and soundness proof of a simple SNARK
Justin Drake explains polynomial commitments
New bounty (3000 USD) for improving cryptanalysis on the Legendre PR
Mona El Isa’s a day in the life for asset management in 2030. We need more web3 science fiction
Dates of Note
Upcoming dates of note (new in bold):
Jan 20-21 - Parity’s OpenEthereum Rust client workshop (Berlin)
Jan 21 - Gitcoin grants quadratic matching ends. (my grant is here!)
Jan 26 - deadline for MarketingDAO proposals
Jan 31 - deadline for EU ledger 200k euro grants for blockchain startups
Feb 8 - Augur v1 cutoff
Feb 14-16 - ETHDenver
Feb 20 - Decentraland launch
Feb 28-Mar 1 - ETHLondon UK
Mar 3-5 - EthCC (Paris)
Mar 29-Apr4 - EthLagos
Apr 3-7 - Edcon (Vienna)
April 24-26 - EthTurin
May 15 - EthBarcelona R&D workshop
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